1. Go to the This I Believe website. Hover your cursor over the "explore" link. You need to choose three essays to read.
2. Click on "comments" below. For each essay, include:
- a. The essay title
- b. The URL (copy from the website & paste here)
- c. The theme or topic
3. In the comment, explain which essay is the best of those three, and why. Remember to think about the elements of good writing as you explain.
4. Type your first name and last initial at the end of your comment before you click "Post Comment."
1. a. The Love I Choose
ReplyDeleteb. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/6743/
c. What love means to the author and how there is different kinds of love.
2. a. The Connection Between Strangers
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/9365/
c. How strangers impact peoples lives even with the smallest things they may do.
3. a. Tomorrow Will Be A Better Day
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/4205/
c. He believes that our generation will get better because every generation has been through bad times.
In my opinion the best essay I read was "Tomorrow Will Be A Better Day". I thought that was the best because he had so many good points of why things will probably get better. He gives readers hope. He thinks of things that most people do not think of. That is why I thought this was the best essay out of the three.
Skye B.
1. a. This I Believe
ReplyDeleteb. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/26523/
c. humor & laughter
2. a. I Take My Voice Back
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/22871/
c. addiction
3. a. Telling The Kids the Whole Truth
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/39780/
c. parenthood
the best essay in my opinion would be I Take My Voice Back because it catches my attention as I'm reading and makes me want to read the rest of the essay Mercedes S.
1. a) Doing Things My Own Way
ReplyDeleteb)http://thisibelieve.org/essay/23041/
c) do things the way you want; figure out whats best for you
2. a) Pennies from Heaven
b) http://thisibelieve.org/essay/10939/
c) saving money for cancer; his wife had cancer and saved every penny she had
3. a) The Space Between Us
b) http://thisibelieve.org/essay/49378/
c) two different religions; married couple living good with two different religions not knowing what to do.
The essay that was the best would be "Pennies From Heaven." The reason for that is because, the writer used good speech and the way he put things just showed a picture in your head. He really described and showed the reader what it was about. I just love the feeling i got when i read it
1. a. Pennies from Heaven
ReplyDeleteb. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/10939/
c. believing and having faith in god.
2. a. Time to Walk the Dog
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/10598/
c. humor and laughter
3. a. Freedom from Fear
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16719/
c. Fear; The little things on this journey of ours that frightens us.
The best out of the three was "Pennies from Heaven." The essay was sweet and hard to believe, but you find that place inside when you just know that it has to be true. This man really loved his wife and he shows it in this essay.
-Jaci S.
1) a. Seeing with the Heart
ReplyDeleteb. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/1000/
c. multi-races, what her & her daughter go through
2) a. My father told me i was fat
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/12446/
c. weight issues, getting through verbal abuse sort of
3) a. It felt like death
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/4857/
c. how he feels death will be like, kind of like a description of death to him
- My personal favorite was "My father told me I was fat", because I felt that she really opened up & that takes a lot of courage, I admire her a lot.
*Patterson, K
1. a: Come to My Table
ReplyDeleteb: http://thisibelieve.org/essay/24666/
c: how cooking is how some famllies show there love for one another.
2. a: The Love I choose
b: http://thisibelieve.org/essay/6743/
c: its about how you choose who you love out of everybody and each little thing you do for that person everyday shows your love for them.
3. a: The Space Between Us
b: http://thisibelieve.org/essay/49378/
c: its how about even though people have different religions they still all beleave in the one thing and thats god.
i think the best essay between those three personally would have to be " The Space Between Us because it just to me has more compromise and the share of love and understanding for something that people fight about everyday.
Tuesday H.
1. a. The Hardest Work You'll Ever Do
ReplyDeleteb. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/616/
c. A woman that loses someone close to her and is in bad grief. But the love people around her helps her.
2. a. What Is Important In Life
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/2392/
c. About this girl visiting her Grandmother and finding out love is important.
3. a. I Believe In The Car Radio
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/68748/
c. About how listening to the radio can change your mood; about memories.
The best essay would have to be "I Believe In The Car Radio" because everyone listens to music and every ones mood changes by every song depending on if it was a good memory or a bad.
Breanna C.
1. a. "My Father Told Me I Was Fat"
ReplyDeleteb. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/12446/
c. Its about a girl whose dad verbal assaulted her and she would write about it and then destroy it the next morning until her father killed himself then she started saving them and letting people who cared read them.
2. a. "What Goes Around Comes Around"
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/13918/
c. Its about being nice to others and showing respect. Its about helping others out in their time of need and being a better person to make the world better.
3. a. "There Is More To Life Than My Life"
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/2714/
c. It's about a woman who has a two year old daughter that's cat just died and shes trying to figure out how to tell her daughter without making her fear death like she did as a child so she tells her daughter her cat is the grass and flowers and trees so then neither of them fear death.
Haley P.
1. a) Doing Things On My Own
ReplyDeleteb)http://thisibelieve.org/essay/23041/
c) do what you want; do things the way you feel they should be done, but in a good way
2. a) Pennies From Heaven
b)http://thisibelieve.org/essay/10939/
c) put things to good use;this married couple saved every penny they had for cancer
3. a) The Space Between Us
b)http://thisibelieve.org/essay/49378/
c) two different religions; married couple having different religions and not knowing what to do
The essay that i thought was the best would be the "Pennies From Heaven." The writer wrote that so good his speech he used just put pictures in your head. He described and showed you something very valuable i think. The essay also seemed like a good life lesson.
Christa R
1. Pennies from heaven
ReplyDeletea.http://thisibelieve.org/essay/10939/
b.Topic is when his wife died.
2. Creating our own happiness
a.http://thisibelieve.org/essay/24791/
b.Topic is being happy for what you have.
3. My father told me I was fat.
a.http://thisibelieve.org/essay/12446/
b.Topic was her dad being rude to her.
I think "Pennies from heaven" was the best. This essay was interesting and had good details. The story stayed on topic.
1. a. Free minds and hearts at work
ReplyDeleteb. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16931/
c. it was about overcoming racial barriers in the sport of base ball when things are beginning become unsegregated.
2. a. A new birth of freedom
b.http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16645/
c. it was about a immigrant living in poland that has been thru hardship, has seen much crime, infestation, and terrane finaly making their way to american and seeing how important freedom and liberty is thru his own two eyes.
3. a.The only way to make a friend
b.http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16748/
c. it is talking about all choices, decisions, and beliefs that someone can make and about respecting others beliefs, even if you don't agree with it.
Best: i think the best out of the three is the second one because it shows just how important freedom and liberty is in a country, thats why we as a country need to fight to keep that right, the right to vote or the right to believe in what ever you want to believe i.n in a free country you have a choice in what happens, you have a choice in the things you do. i think some of us need to be reminded of just how important freedom and liberty is.
Cole. M
a.Duck Blind Lessons
ReplyDeleteb.http://writereadlearn.blogspot.com/2010/12/this-i-believe.html
c.its about a man that duck hunted with his dad made him the man he is today
a.In God Alone
b.http://writereadlearn.blogspot.com/2010/12/this-i-believe.html
c.its about a guy that thought he had to do everything and he ran out of money and his wife got sick and her friends started bringing food, so he started doing everything for god.
a.Pennies from Heaven
b.http://writereadlearn.blogspot.com/2010/12/this-i-believe.html
c.its about a man that lost his wife to cancer and now he goes around collecting pennies for cancer and he thinks every penny is from his wife watching over him from heaven.
Ty.B
1. a. Be Cool To the Pizza Delivery Dude
ReplyDeleteb. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/23/
c. The pizza man should be able to pass cars and because they are taking food to people of different kinds.
2. a. My Father Told Me I Was Fat
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/12446/
c. This lady was always put down and to fix it she wrote poems and stories and destroyed it in the morning. After a while she published her writings and did not care on what anybody had to say about the writing.
3. a. A Calling We should Heed
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/1574/
c. This person as nice as can be, helped a homeless man. When the man and the homeless man departed the homeless man says, "Are we our brother's keeper."
The essay I liked the best about was essay three, this person made their essay have a hanging in were I wanted to know what the answer to the question my self that the homeless man asked.
Bennett, B.
Walker W.
ReplyDelete1.Untold stories of kindness
2.http://thisibelieve.org/essay/138/
3.Medic in Iraq
1.recovering the hope of the children
2.http://thisibelieve.org/essay/20918/
3.Man in Iraq helping children
1.This, I believe, is War
2.http://thisibelieve.org/essay/57601/
3.Guy in Iraq that was sad about killing people
I like the 2nd one the best
1. a."Be Cool to the Pizza Delivery Guy"
ReplyDeleteb. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/23/
c. Show courtesy to the delivery guy.
2. a."There is no God"
b. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/34/
c.Stating his personal beliefs on Religion(God), Justifying his reasons for stating that there is no God.
3. a."A Dog's Life"
b.http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16088/
c.States pros for giving your child a dog.
My favorite paragraph was " A Dog's Life, because I can relate to it.
Mason H.